...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.

God is always the last resource.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.